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Monday, December 29, 2008

'Marley & Me' earns $50.7M box office biscuit

You know that nobody has time to train their dogs properly when this is the big hit.

Completely unrelated (unless you figure on less suburban dog ownership) but mighty interesting to me, Jim Kuntsler bops us on the head with his version of the coming realities. I tend to agree with him most of the time although he doesn't explain where the (mostly unpapered) South Americans (and their kids born here) doing this now will go


A lot of families will lose everything. They will sift and disperse into the housing owned by other family members -- parents, siblings -- and a strange new not-altogether comfortable kind of togetherness will become common. Over time, a lot of people will go looking for casual work "under-the-table"( and probably low-paying). To some degree, these workers will begin to look and act like a new servant class, and before too long they may be absorbed into the households of people who employ them. There will be plenty of room for them there.

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